
Couples Matching Fancy Dress Costumes
In ITV’s Victoria we see the queen adjudge to bandy a apparel ball, aggressive by her altruistic admiration to advice the crumbling Spitalfields cottony industry (but also, admittedly, because it’s an alibi for a party).
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But did this absolutely appear or is the storyline invented?
Just as we see in the drama, Queen Victoria DID adjudge to authority a ball. On 12th May 1842 at Buckingham Palace, over 2,000 bodies angry up for a abundant big affair at a acquisition alleged the Bal Costumé.
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Prince Albert and Queen Victoria dressed as Edward III and his accompaniment Queen Philippa of Hainault. The aristocratic couple’s apparel were based on tomb effigies in Westminster Abbey, although their apparel were acclimatized to reflect the fashions of their own time. Other associates of the Aristocratic Household were additionally meant to booty on the medieval theme, according to the Aristocratic Collection.
And the apparel were, indeed, accurately advised to accord assignment to the crumbling Spitalfields cottony industry. The couple’s apparel were advised below the administration of James Robinson Planché – an able on actual apparel – but created by the “genius and skill” of Mr Vouillon and his “expert and tasteful sister” Madame Laure (or that’s how the Illustrated London News appear it).
The brawl was immortalised by the painter Sir Edwin Landseer, who corrective a commemorative portrait. Here we see Prince Albert and Queen Victoria in the Throne Room, continuing below a Gothic awning busy with a amethyst clover bolt of estate. On it you can see the aristocratic accoutrements of Edward III. Albert is apparent cutting the Sword of Offering from George IV’s accession aback in 1821.
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Queen Victoria additionally drew her own little self-portrait in her diary before the ball, writing: “Went with Albert to attending at the adjustment of the apartment for our abundant “Bal Costume“, — which were advanced well, but are far from actuality accomplished yet. Tried on my costume once more.”
And was Albert afraid to host a apparel ball? Absolutely not – in actuality he was a active force. He’d developed up in a cloister with a continued attitude of fancy-dress parties, and the historian Ian Hunter has noted: “It was Albert’s access that led to so abundant time and accomplishment actuality spent not alone on the brawl itself but additionally in capturing the moment in the formal portrait.”
This was alone the aboriginal of three above apparel balls. In 1845 the aristocratic brace captivated a brawl in Georgian dress, while in 1851 they went for the Restoration period.
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Victoria continues at 9pm on Sundays on ITV
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